...; collection Heneage Finch, 5th Earl of Aylesford (1786-1859), London;{Note RMA.} ? his sale, London (Christie et al.), 17 (18) July 1893 sqq., possibly no. 254, as Rembrandt van Rijn (`Various Sketches, in pen and ink´), £ 0.1.5, to Sir John Charles Robinson (1824-1913), London;{Copy RKD.} from whom purchased, as Rembrandt van Rijn, with seven other drawings, through the mediation of the dealer Thomas Agnew, London, by Dr Cornelis Hofstede de Groot (1863-1930), The Hague, 1901;{Hofstede de Groot notes, KB.} by whom donated to the museum (L. 2228), 1906, but kept in usufruct; transferred to the museum, 1930
